[OLPC-Chicago] the chicago summer
Edward Cherlin
echerlin at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 13:41:27 EDT 2008
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:03 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
> I'm out of the loop on work that is happening to make the chicago
> summer office happen.
>
> Have we found participants already? How many people do we want to
> contact? Do we have any flyers? What do I tell people?
>
> I reached out to the youth volunteer coordinator at IRIM to gauge
> interest in participating with an OLPC group. He said that it sounds
> interesting but not at this time. This summer they are focusing on an
> incoming group of people who are mostly pre-literate and he needs to
> direct resources towards teaching basic language and health skills.
Just our target group! Well, we don't have the health content in place
and we don't have the text-to-speech engine in all of the activities,
so he's right. But it may be worthwhile to ask him for a list of
content and the lesson plans they use, and see about XO-izing it all
for next year.
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